The Dearborn automaker is now manufacturing 200,000 EcoBoost engines a month worldwide.
DETROIT, MI - With a 1.0-liter, turbo-charged Ford Focus rolling off the line last week at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Ford Motor Co. has produced its 5-millionth vehicle with an EcoBoost engine.
The Dearborn automaker is now manufacturing 200,000 EcoBoost engines a month worldwide, the company announced Tuesday.
Ford began building its EcoBoost engines in 2009 with the Ford Taurus SHO, which had a 3.5L EcoBoost V-6 under its hood. It built 14,439 vehicles with EcoBoost engines that year, before upping that number to 62,704 vehicles in 2010 - the first full year of production.
The company passed the 2 million mark in October 2013.
Now, all of Ford's passenger vehicles come with an optional EcoBoost engine in the U.S., and the technology is an option in every region where Ford sells cars and trucks.
Ford makes a 1.0L, three-cylinder EcoBoost, as well as 1.5L, 1.6L, 2.0L and 2.3L four-cylinder ones, and 2.7L and 3.5L V-6 EcoBoost engines.
The Ford GT, an exotic supercar unveiled in Detroit earlier this year, is getting a new, twin-turbo, 3.5L EcoBoost V6 that will produce more than 600 horsepower.
At the other end of the spectrum, The 2015 Ford Focus SFE with a 1.0L EcoBoost has an EPA-estimated fuel economy of 42 mpg highway.
And last month, Ford unveiled what it describes as the EcoBoost's latest "overachiever," the all-wheel-drive Focus RS hatchback with a 315-plus-horsepower, 2.3L EcoBoost engine.
David Muller is the automotive and business reporter for MLive Media Group in Detroit. Email him at dmuller@mlive.com or follow him on Twitter